Focus: Brain connectivity patterns as predictors of vulnerability to pathology or of treatment outcomes

Project design, management, execution, analysis, communication

Supervision of students

Translational pre-clinical and human research on brain connectivity patterns associated with neuropsychiatric and other clinical disorders, including addictions and the implication of stress reduction in outcomes.

Centre de Neurosciences Psychiatriques, Université de Lausanne (11 November 2008)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society for Neuroscience

European Brain & Behavior Society (EBBS)

Society for Social Neuroscience

Société Suisse des Neurosciences

ACHIEVEMENTS and AWARDS

Winning symposium submission and organizer of the European Brain and Behavior Society Satellite symposium at forum of Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Barcelona 2012. Stress, the story of our social lives.

Founding co-organizer of national (UK) Young Neuroscientists’ Day(2007, 2008)

Co-organizer, first edition of Beyond the Towers of Academia (School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

Poirier GL, Cordero MI, Sandi C (2010). Gestational stress in rats producing long-term changes in the dam’s emotional state is associated with gene expression changes in the brain of the mother and the offspring. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego.